New Wacom Pen-Display Cheaper Than Cintiq

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New Wacom Pen-Display Cheaper Than Cintiq

If Wacom's high-end Cintiq interactive tablet-displays are too expensive for sane artists to buy, their latest "pen display" model might suffice. The PL-521 is a 15-inch LCD with 1024x768 resolution, a 140-degree tilt stand, and a touchscreen able to distinguish 512 levels of pressure.

Arriving with JustWrite Office for Microsoft Office — a note-scrawling plug-in — users will be able to slap notes over any document going. As for me, I'd like to see how precise it is, and whether it could be used as a "bargain" art toy comparable to the Cintiq, in the same way as, say, Wacom's cheaper Graphire tablets offer most of the functionality offered by their expensive Intuos boards.

I put the word "bargain" in scare quotes there because it's still going to be $1,400. This model looks, in fact, to be the DTF-521 here in the U.S., which is $1,624. Either way, it should be in stores about now here, and in Europe later this month.